Tickets still available for Ties & Tails event Oct. 15

Tickets are still available for the first Ties & Tails Gala at Dow Diamond on Saturday, Oct. 15.

Tickets are $80 per person and available at Yeo and Yeo on Eastman Avenue in Midland through Monday, Oct. 10.

The cocktail reception features hors d’oeuvres, dueling pianos, live and silent auctions and special guest speaker, Beth Mars, director of Operations for PETCO Foundation.

Auction items up for bid include a trip for two to New York City, the use of a suite and 20 tickets to a Loons game and the opportunity for a person’s pet to be featured on the marketing materials for the 2012 Ties & Tails Gala.

Proceeds from the gala will help sustain operating costs for the Humane Society’s animal shelter which houses abandoned cats and dogs.